Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Lagos State Council, Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya, popular as MC Oluomo, has warned the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) not to interfere in the Union crisis.
Akinsanya asked the NLC to allow the union to organise itself without undue interference and bias.
Recall that the NLC had stepped in when executives of the NURTW opposed to MC Oluomo’s faction were arrested.
Minister of Labour, Simon Lalong, had visited the Inspector-General of Police to facilitate the release of the executives.
In a statement issued in Lagos, Akinsanya blamed the Union crisis on the factional NURTW President, Tajudeen Baruwa.
Akinsanya said Baruwa’s actions without recourse to the union’s constitution were responsible for the crisis.
He accused the then NURTW leadership of trying to create fracas in the Lagos state chapter of the union by appointing another state chairman to handle the tricycle operators (Keke Marwa) thus having two chairmen in one state, which became a panacea for anarchy.
The NURTW Chairman recalled that he was instrumental in the emergence of Baruwa as President of the union in 2019.
He said: “As Chairman of the Lagos State Chapter, I performed my duties diligently fulfilling all my constitutional responsibilities and maintaining the hard-won peace in Lagos State. This role was admirably felt all over the Southwest and I was also elected as the Zonal Vice-Chairman of Zone 2. In all of these, I have conducted myself within the ambit of the law and constitution guiding our operations in NURTW.
“All went well until the illegal and unconstitutional interference in the affairs of the Lagos State Chapter, and by extension, the Southwest by the Baruwa when he decided to appoint another state chairman to handle the tricycle operators (Keke Marwa) thus having two chairmen in one state, which became a panacea for anarchy. This appointment, which was strange to our constitution and a sinister move to destabilize our operations in Lagos State, led to outright panic.
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